Re: Windows and DLLs

[Nils Philippsen <nils wombat dialup fht-esslingen de>]

On Fri, 2 Oct 1998, David Jeske wrote:
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> 
> Can you explain to me exactly what the method is for writing programs
> on UNIX with location independence? In my experience, everyone invents
> their own hack. Some (like httpd) make you specify the full path to
> the config file on the command line, and then you can put the paths in
> the config file. Some rely on environment variables. This is not
> location independence, this is more annoying configuration stuff that
> I don't want to have to relearn for every app.
> 
> We need a standard way for an app to find the full path to it's

This simply is not really possible -- think of hard links. the only thing
you might get would be an inode number and a device which wouldn't help.

> binary, and be guaranteed to get it. Then it should be able to get all
> datafiles relative to that path. Better yet, it should just "ask" for
> datafiles with relative paths without knowing where they are. Having
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Regards,
Nils
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